“My mind is made up / of so many cuts / of meat.” David Tomas Martinez
survive this bridge
say nothing intrinsically
unnecessary superfluous and suppose
that a poet who advises that little-better speak
he whose role is it to enfeeble language speak
a little looser
better advised and thereby unnecessary
and superfluous and superfluous
and suppose as a poet who advises
the deep-seated one day
countess of deepseats thereby
unnecessary unhelpful and superfluous but lawful
always within the arms of the law
can a poet dance his sweet wine
therebys in all their wiggling forms within
unintentionally unnecessary and helpful
but how can a poet
among his people's trusts
become a poet-king?
how can a poet-king
who advised so
damn unnecessarily
survive?
